Beermat #31 wrote

“Just ask anyone who flew it in combat – there are still some around, and I have. None of them mention the engines as anything other than perfectly OK.”

I have had in the past access to the Log Book of Flight Sergeant Frank Waldron of 137 Squadron who flew Whirlwinds from January 1942 to October that year before he was shot down. In all he flew 30 different Whirlwinds in 174 flights. I can hardly recall a time that he was forced to abandon a flight, once I think.

This is a wonderful thread and I delight in every addition to it.